The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-07-14

trait at auction. The famous French beauty il
represented full length, reclining in her boudoir,
with q book in her hand, her pet spaniel at her
feet. and a clock, curtain. and writing table in
the back ground. She wears blue silk dress,
with pink ribbons and earlands of roses The
picture was painted in 1875, and was among the
old masters shown at Burlington House, Lon
don in 1876
MANY persons do not know that Jefferson
Davis is blind of an eye. and moro do not know
how he thus afflicted. Whom he was about
fourteen years old he and his cousin Joseph L.
Davis. were shooting with cross bows at mark
q pine stump. One of the bolts fred by
young Jefferson few back and struck him
squarsly in the eye. putting it completely out.
1.-THE will of Mr.. Samuel Jones Tilden.s says
the all Mall Gazette, '.who was q candidate for
the Presidency of the United States, late Of
Greystone, Yonkers county of Westchester,
State OF New York, counsellor at-law. who
died on August 4. last, proved in London on
the 18TH of June, the value of the personal es-
tate IN this country amounting to over f138 O0O.'
ERNEST MICHEL, the noted French traveller
who has just made trip around tho world in
240 days, says that this journey may now be
made much more cheaply and comfortably than
few years ago, and that transportation facili-
ties and land have so greatly improved
that oven this limited tine affords many ad-
vantages for study and deliberate sightseeing.
As for the expense, he says that the journey
around the world can be comfortably made by
those who know how to travel at cost of So
with the greatest comfort. His estimate. how
ever, does not leave much margin for the pur-
chase of knick-knacks and souvenirs Of the
journey.
DR. HENRY CARPENTER. who died on Satur-
day at Lancaster Penn. came Of notable fam
lily Of physicians. He had lantern hanging
lie his hall which had been brought over from
Switzerland by his ancestor DR.. Heinrich Zim-
an in 1893. This progenitor of the family
in Am erica anglicized his name into Carpenter
Ir,o frovv 4 hiatt <h>
head of tho family has been named Henry and
has been physician. with a single exception in
lily physician of Thaddeus Stevens and James
Buchanan and attended them both in their last
illness. 1t was at his wedding that they met
for the last time. and he was the mediator who
effected reconciliation between them after a
long estrangement
JOSEPH GARRISON. of Idaho, who has just
been notified from Washington that his pension
was allowed, claimed back pension from 1S48.
By temporarily waving heavier claim for en-
tire disability resulting from a wound on the
head, inflicted by bowlder thrown from the
roof of house at the storming OF the City OF
Mexico he has been allowed twelve dollars
month. with per interest per annnm,
since 1848-a period of thirty nine years. Hav-
tenant in the Second California Cavalry. ha ex-
poets to get and additional sum. The allowance
to him so far will secure him over $40, 600, and
when his other claims for increased pension are
he expects to receive $4,000 TO
500, 900 more.
AMONG the veterans who attended the recent
reunion Of the Fourteenth Vermont was Gen.
S. N. Southland. There is a romance connected
with the Generals family. He was at Gettys-
burg and lost one leg and part Of his other foot
there Twelve years after the battle he received
notice from a law firm in the South that de-
ceased confederate soldier, named Cecil Mont
gomery had left in trust the sum of SIS. 900,
payable in yearly installments of 81, 600, to the
10 .4E C<G~ n-1 fz,1p had
saved his lifo), when such heir should reach the
age of fifteen years The year following Mr.. :,
Southland met at a reception at President Buck
hams in Burlington his niece. Miss Lydia A.
Wright, whom he subsequently, married. They
now have two daughters and son, and tho
son Is named Cecil Montgomery